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Effects of morphological awareness, naming speed, and phonological awareness on reading skills from Grade 3 to Grade 5

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106188

John R. Kirby , S. Hélène Deacon , George Georgiou , Kelly Geier , Jessica Chan , Rauno Parrila

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The impact of handwriting and typing practice in children’s letter and word learning: Implications for literacy development

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106195

Gorka Ibaibarriaga , Joana Acha , Manuel Perea

{"title":"The impact of handwriting and typing practice in children’s letter and word learning: Implications for literacy development","authors":"Gorka Ibaibarriaga , Joana Acha , Manuel Perea","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent research has revealed that the substitution of handwriting practice for typing may hinder the initial steps of reading development. Two hypotheses for the detrimental effect of typing are (a) reduced graphomotor activity and (b) reduced variability in the visual letter forms. However, previous studies were mostly limited to letter learning and primarily employed the visual identification of letters as a learning index. The current experiment investigated the impact of graphomotor action and output variability in letter and word learning using a variety of tasks. A total of 50 prereaders learned nine letters and 16 pseudowords made up of these letters across four learning conditions: copying the letters/words by hand, tracing the letters/words, typing the letters/words on a computer with several fonts, and typing with a single font. Posttest tasks included naming, writing, and visual identification of the trained letters and words. Results showed that children in the handwriting groups (i.e., trained through hand-copying or tracing) achieved higher accuracy across all posttest tasks compared with those in the typing groups. These outcomes illustrate the importance of handwriting experience in learning alphabetic and orthographic representations, favoring the graphomotor hypothesis. Thus, educators should be cautious about replacing pencil and paper with digital devices during the period of children’s reading acquisition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 106195"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Economic risk proneness in middle childhood: Uncertainty-driven exploration or novelty-seeking?

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106189

Anthony Roig , Régis Thouvarecq , James Rivière

{"title":"Economic risk proneness in middle childhood: Uncertainty-driven exploration or novelty-seeking?","authors":"Anthony Roig , Régis Thouvarecq , James Rivière","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although economic risk proneness is usually observed in young children, the issues of how this preference changes during development and how novelty and uncertainty interact in motivating children’s economic choices are unclear. This study investigated the developmental trajectory and mechanisms underlying attitude toward risk in the gain domain between 7 and 9 years of age. A total of 225 7- to 9-year-olds were presented with a series of gambling tasks in which they needed to choose between two options: one safe and one risky but with the same expected value. Among the three tasks proposed to participants, an unexpected event was associated with the risky option in one task and with the safe option in another task. By revealing that children become less attracted to uncertainty in gain contexts from 7 to 9 years of age, our results indicate a decrease in economic risk proneness at the onset of middle childhood. Our findings also showed that 7- to 9-year-olds choose the novel option more often when it is associated with risk versus safety. We suggest that economic risk proneness in young children is driven more by uncertainty exploration than by novelty-seeking.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 106189"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143123828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Contingency in maternal sensitivity and quality of child attachment

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106194

Gemma Pons-Salvador, Rosa M. Trenado, M. Ángeles Cerezo

{"title":"Contingency in maternal sensitivity and quality of child attachment","authors":"Gemma Pons-Salvador, Rosa M. Trenado, M. Ángeles Cerezo","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Patterns of mothers’ contingent responses to their 8-month-old infants were studied across three groups based on the attachment style that children developed at 15 months, assessed with the Strange Situation Procedure: insecure–avoidant, secure, and insecure–resistant. The participants were 78 mother–infant dyads who interacted in a free-play setting. The interactions were assessed using the Early Mother–Child Interaction Coding System–Revised, an observational system that allows real-time coding. Two dimensions of maternal sensitivity, <em>appropriateness</em> and <em>promptness,</em> were analyzed from the perspective of the infants: appropriateness in terms of proportion of different maternal responses, interfering and not interfering (qualitative profile), and the frequency of them (quantitative), and promptness as the latency of the contingent responses. Results showed that infants in the secure attachment group received a lower proportion of interfering behaviors when interacting with their mothers than their insecure attached counterparts. They also experienced higher frequency of non-interfering maternal contingent responses and quicker, protective–intrusive responses. Therefore, the secure attachment group of children experienced less interruption and more attentive responses from their mothers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 106194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How does activity context relate to parents’ responses to preschoolers’ errors and correct math statements?

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106191

Can Çarkoğlu, Sarah H. Eason

{"title":"How does activity context relate to parents’ responses to preschoolers’ errors and correct math statements?","authors":"Can Çarkoğlu, Sarah H. Eason","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research shows that parent–child math activities in the home positively relate to children’s math learning. Although there is evidence suggesting that the nature of parent guidance during these interactions is important for children’s math learning, it is unclear how parents respond to preschoolers’ errors and correct math statements and whether responses vary across activity contexts. We examined parents’ responses to errors and correct statements during structured math activities with 49 dyads of parents and 4- and 5-year-olds. Dyads were assigned to either an Informal Learning condition (<em>n</em> = 25) or a Formal Learning condition (<em>n</em> = 24). We identified instances where children responded correctly or incorrectly to math prompts and coded parents’ feedback based on the extent to which it supported children’s autonomy and learning. Overall, parents most frequently responded in ways that encouraged children’s continued math engagement and thinking (elaborative guidance). However, multiple regression analyses revealed that parents were more likely to not respond to errors during informal learning than during formal learning, and parents were more likely to give the correct answer following an error during formal learning compared with during informal learning. Parents in both conditions were equally likely to offer elaborative support following errors. Moreover, parents did not differ in their responses following children’s correct statements across conditions. These findings suggest, irrespective of activity context, that parents can realize opportunities to effectively support preschoolers’ math learning. Yet, given differences in parents’ responses to errors, the findings have implications as to how we can tailor recommendations to promote high-quality parent–child math interactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 106191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Affordances of fractions and decimals for arithmetic among middle school students in the United States and China

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106187

Qiushan Liu , Yunqi Wang , David W. Braithwaite

{"title":"Affordances of fractions and decimals for arithmetic among middle school students in the United States and China","authors":"Qiushan Liu , Yunqi Wang , David W. Braithwaite","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106187","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106187","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent research by <span><span>Liu and Braithwaite (2023</span></span>; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 49, pp. 1459–1470) revealed differential affordances of fractions and decimals for arithmetic. Specifically, adults preferred to solve addition problems in decimal form rather than fraction form and preferred to solve multiplication problems in fraction form rather than decimal form. The current study tested whether similar preferences would appear among middle school children in the United States (N = 84) and China (N = 88) and whether analogous patterns would appear in children’s calculation performance. Like adults in Liu and Braithwaite’s study, children in both countries preferred decimals more for addition and preferred fractions more for multiplication. Furthermore, calculation accuracy was relatively higher with decimals for addition and with fractions for multiplication, and calculation was perceived to be relatively less effortful with decimals for addition and with fractions for multiplication. We consider both conceptual and procedural explanations for the findings, based respectively on semantic alignment theory and strategy choice theory, and conclude that a procedural perspective offers the more complete and parsimonious explanation. Educational implications of the findings are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 106187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emotional elements matter: Stories about a protagonist’s guilt over lying promote honesty in early elementary school children but not in preschool children

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106193

Jing Liang , Song-Li Li , Wei Ji , Jing-Xuan Ran , Wen-Jing Yan

{"title":"Emotional elements matter: Stories about a protagonist’s guilt over lying promote honesty in early elementary school children but not in preschool children","authors":"Jing Liang , Song-Li Li , Wei Ji , Jing-Xuan Ran , Wen-Jing Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous research has documented the effectiveness of positive moral stories in promoting children’s honesty; however, the impact of negative moral stories, particularly those incorporating different emotional elements, remains underexplored. The current studies investigated how guilt- and sadness-inducing narratives in moral stories influence children’s honesty. In Study 1, we randomly assigned 166 children (aged 6–7 years) to one of four conditions: control (neutral story), negative moral story, negative moral story with sadness, or negative moral story with guilt. Using a mathematics test paradigm in which children self-reported their performance, we found that whereas a simple negative moral story did not significantly affect honesty compared with control (40.54% vs. 48.84%), incorporating guilt significantly increased honest behavior (74.42%). The negative story with sadness showed an intermediate effect (66.67%). In Study 2, we employed a card-guessing game with 85 younger children (aged 3–6 years) to test the effectiveness of guilt-inducing narratives given the higher potential to promote honesty in Study 1. The results revealed no significant difference in honest behavior between the guilt-inducing story and control conditions (38.71% vs. 50% honest reporting among peekers). The age-dependent pattern propounds that the effectiveness of guilt-based moral stories emerges during early elementary school, coinciding with children’s understanding of complex moral emotions. The findings highlight the role of guilt and sadness in promoting ethical behavior among early elementary school children and have significant implications for moral education strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 106193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cognitive flexibility and mindfulness in middle childhood: The serial multiple mediation of theory of mind

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106192

Utku Beyazıt , Büşra Kurtoğlu Karataş , Aynur Bütün Ayhan

{"title":"Cognitive flexibility and mindfulness in middle childhood: The serial multiple mediation of theory of mind","authors":"Utku Beyazıt , Büşra Kurtoğlu Karataş , Aynur Bütün Ayhan","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of theory of mind (ToM) skills in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and mindfulness in middle childhood. The study group comprised 282 children aged 9 to 11 years who were attending two separate primary schools in Ankara, Türkiye. The children were administered a battery of instruments consisting of self-report measures of cognitive flexibility and mindfulness in addition to a story-based assessment of ToM. To test the hypotheses of the study, a serial multiple mediation model was employed. The findings of the study indicated that cognitive flexibility had a positive and significant impact on mindfulness. Although the specific single mediating impact of the first-order false belief task (ToM1) on the relationship between cognitive flexibility and mindfulness was not significant, the impacts of the second-order false belief task (ToM2) and the faux pas task (ToM3) were found to be significant. Furthermore, the findings indicated that the ToM1, ToM2, and ToM3 skills collectively exerted a serial multiple mediating impact on the relationship between cognitive flexibility and mindfulness. The results are significant in elucidating the cognitive and emotional developmental processes in the middle childhood context, and they underscore the importance of strategies to improve children’s cognitive flexibility and ToM skills in educational and psychological interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 106192"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is counting a bad idea? Complex relations among children’s fraction knowledge, eye movements, and performance in visual fraction comparisons

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106181

Sabrina Schwarzmeier, Andreas Obersteiner

{"title":"Is counting a bad idea? Complex relations among children’s fraction knowledge, eye movements, and performance in visual fraction comparisons","authors":"Sabrina Schwarzmeier, Andreas Obersteiner","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding fraction magnitudes is crucial for mathematical development but is challenging for many children. Visualizations, such as tape diagrams, are thought to leverage children’s early proportional reasoning skills. However, depending on children’s prior knowledge, these visualizations may encourage various strategies. Children with lower fraction knowledge might rely on counting, leading to natural number bias and low performance, whereas those with higher knowledge might rely on more efficient strategies based on magnitude. This study explores the relationship between students’ general fraction knowledge and their ability to visually compare fraction magnitudes represented with tape diagrams. A total of 67 children completed a fraction knowledge test and a set of comparison tasks with discretized and continuous tape diagrams while their eye movements, accuracy, and response times were recorded. Cluster analysis identified three groups. The first group, high-achieving and applying magnitude-based strategies, showed high accuracy and short response times, indicating efficiency. A second high-achieving group frequently used counting strategies, which was unexpected. This group achieved the highest accuracy but the longest response times, indicating less efficiency. The third group, low-achieving and rarely using counting strategies, had the lowest accuracy and short response times. These students tended to compare absolute sizes rather than relative sizes (i.e., showing a size bias). None of the groups exhibited a natural number bias. The study suggests that counting, although inefficient, does not necessarily lead to bias or low performance. Instead, biased reasoning with fraction visualizations can originate from reliance on absolute sizes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"252 ","pages":"Article 106181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143042153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can gamification improve children’s performance in mental rotation?

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106169

Samantha Zakrzewski , Edward Merrill , Yingying Yang

{"title":"Can gamification improve children’s performance in mental rotation?","authors":"Samantha Zakrzewski , Edward Merrill , Yingying Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106169","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A common obstacle in cognitive development research is that many cognitive tasks can be long, repetitive, and hence seemingly boring for children. The current study examined whether incorporating gamification elements could make a classic mental rotation task more child-friendly and engaging for young children. A total of 100 children aged 6 to 9 years participated in two mental rotation tasks, where one included gamification elements and the other did not. Results showed that gamification indeed improved performance on the task. Furthermore, this effect did not vary as a function of age, gender, or task difficulty. However, it interacted with testing order, such that those children who received the baseline condition first improved their performance in the gamification condition later on, whereas those children who received the gamification condition first were able to maintain a good performance in the baseline condition later on. Lastly, although some personality factors (e.g., Agreeableness, Openness to Experience) correlated with the overall performance, they did not predict the gamification effects. Therefore, our results have practical implications for using gamification in designing cognitively demanding tasks for children. Theoretically, they help to further understand how gamification affects cognition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48391,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Child Psychology","volume":"252 ","pages":"Article 106169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143030184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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